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PREPARATION  FOR  IT 


Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy 
Bulletin,  Vol.  1,  No.  6  October,  1910 

Published  Quarterly  by  the  School,  87  Lake  St.,  Chicago,  Ill. 

Entered  as  Second  Class  Matter  at  the  Post  Office,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

under  Act  of  July  16,  1894 


Central  Location  of  School. 


10  minutes  by  street  car  to 

Newberry  Library 
Historical  Society  Library 
City  Water  Works 
Cook  County  Jail 


WEST  SIDE 
FROM 
SCHOOL 


15  minutes  by 
.Street  cars  to 

Hull  House 
Chicago  Com¬ 
mons 

30  minutes  and 
under  to 

Other  Principal 
Settlements 

30  to  60 
minutes  to 

Juvenile  Court 
Detention 
Home 
• 

Cook  County 
Hospital 

John  Worthy 
Reform 
School 

School  for 
Crippled 
Children 
City  House  of 
Correction  • 
Parental  School 

Hospital  for 
the  Insane 
and  Infirm¬ 
ary  for  the 
Poor  at 
Dunning 

Chicago  Theo¬ 
logical  Sem¬ 
inary 

Cathedral  of  St. 
Peter  and 
Paul 

(Episcopal) 

Western  Theo¬ 
logical  Sem¬ 
inary  of  the 
Protestant 
Episcopal 
Church 


FROM  SCHOOL  TO  NORTH  SIDE 
15  minutes  to 
Lincoln  Park 


Daily  News  Sanitarium  for  Sick 
Children 

Cathedral  of  the  Holy  Name 
(Roman  Catholic) 


30  minutes  to 

St.  Stanislaus*  Polish  Parish 
McCormick  Theological 
Seminary 


60  minutes  to 

Northwestern  University,  Evanston 


CENTRAL 

FROM 

SCHOOL 

5  minutes  walk 
to 

City  Hall 

County  Build¬ 
ing 

United  Char¬ 
ities 

Public  Library 

John  Crerar 
Library 

Children's 
Home  and 
Aid  Society 
and  Head¬ 
quarters  of 
the  Civic  and 
Philanthrop¬ 
ic  Agencies 

10  to  15 
minutes  walk 
to 

City  Club 

Woman’s  Club 

Ass’n  of  Com¬ 
merce 

Federation  of 
Labor 

Factory  In¬ 
spector’s 
Office 

Y.  M.  0.  A. 
Building 

Lodging  House 
District 

Grant  Park 

Hotels 

Auditorium 

Theatres 

Railway 

Centers 


Home  for  the  Friendless 
Armour  Institute 
Field  Museum 

South  Parks  and  Play  Grounds 


FROM  SCHOOL  TO  SOUTH  SIDE 

30  to  60  minutes  by  street  cars  to 

Principal  Churches 
Catholic,  Jewish  and  Protestant 
University  of  Chicago 
Sinai  Temple 


Chicago  Normal  School 
Stockyards 

South  Chicago  Steel  Plant 
Pullman  Co’s,  \yorks 


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The  Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy  was  instituted 
in  1903  in  recognition  of  the  demand  for  skilled  professional  service 
in  humanitarian  work. 

In  the  last  two  decades  many  prominent  social  movements  have 


developed  under  private  voluntary  auspices;  public  philanthropic  in¬ 


stitutions  have  been  modernized  under  the  civil  service;  cities  are 
now  being  re-made  under  broad  plans  for  promoting  the  welfare  of 
the  inhabitants. 

A  method,  a  technique  of  social  and  civic  work,  is  thus  being 
worked  out  on  the  basis  of  accumulated  experience,  and  scientific 
inquiry,  precisely  as  has  been  done  in  the  past  in  legal,  medical  and 
other  professions. 

In  the  next  succeeding  pages  is  given  a  resume  of  the  main  fields  of 
specialization  in  this  new  profession  and  of  the  technical  training  pro¬ 
vided  by  the  School  (pages  171-178). 

As  in  the  other  professions,  undergraduate  studies  are  the  best 
foundation  for  success  in  a  postgraduate  school  and  subsequent  career. 
Economics,  sociology,  history  and  related  subjects  of  the  college 
curriculum  form  the  best  academic  preparation  for  rapidly  acquiring 
the  theory  and  practice  offered  by  the  school.  (See  entrance  condi¬ 
tions,  page  184;  curriculum,  page  170;  Field  practice,  page  175.) 

The  school,  like  other  professional  schools,  offers  special  facili¬ 
ties  and  equipment  in  its  field:  supervised  practice  in  the  comprehen¬ 
sive  laboratory  provided  by  the  social  institutions  and  conditions  of 
Chicago  (see  page  175);  a  Department  of  Social  Investigation  main¬ 
tained  by  special  grants  from  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation,  has  already 
completed  some  valuable  inquiries  and  published  the  results  (page  176); 
a  social  service  library  and  a  museum  of  instructional  exhibits  in¬ 
terpretative  of  the  courses  in  the  order  given  (see  page  176);  extension 
lectures  (see  page  177);  and  aids  to  employment  in  the  social  service 
field  (see  page  180). 

The  increasing  number  who  are  being  drawn  toward  social  and 
civic  work  as  a  profession  is  reflected  in  the  expanding  registration 
of  the  school  (see  page  178).  The  size  of  this  year’s  class  (page  179) 
and  the  qualifications  of  its  members,  as  indicated  by  the  educational 
institutions  represented  (page  179),  show  an  encouraging  response  to 
the  insistent  demand  that  the  improvement  of  living  and  working 
conditions  shall  keep  pace  with  advance  in  other  phases  of  human 
activity. 

The  School  and  alumni  notes  (pages  181-183),  are  given  in  the 
Bulletin  as  usual  to  keep  trustees,  alumni  and  friends  in  touch  at 


regular  intervals  with  the  life  of  the  school. 

167 


Board  of  Trustees 


Jane  Addams. 

Alfred  L.  Baker. 

Mrs.  Emmons  Blaine 
Mrs.  Joseph  T.  Bowen 
Edward  0.  Brown 
Charles  R.  Crane 
Mrs.  W.  P.  Dummer 
Victor  Eltino 


W.  E.  Hotchkiss, 

Northwestern  University. 

F.  E.  Blackmar, 

University  of  Kansas. 

Charles  H.  Cooley, 
University  of  Michigan. 

Richard  T.  Ely, 

University  of  Wisconsin. 

John  H.  Gray, 

University  of  Minnesota. 


TRUSTEES. 

William  Kent. 

Julia  C.  Lathrop 

Julian  W.  Mack 

Ralph  Norton 

Allen  B.  Pond 

Edward  L.  Ryerson 

Mrs.  Anna  Wilmarth  Thompson 

Graham  Taylor 

FROM  UNIVERSITIES. 

George  E.  Vincent, 

University  of  Chicago. 

George  E.  Howard, 

University  of  Nebraska. 

David  Kinley, 

University  of  Illinois. 

Isaac  Loos, 

State  University  of  Iowa. 

U.  G.  Weatherly, 

University  of  Indiana. 


Administration 

Graham  Taylor,  President  Julia  C.  Lathrop,  Vice-President 

Edward  L.  Ryerson,  Treasurer 
Address  Jos.  T.  Ryerson  &  Son,  1220  West  16th  Street,  Chicago 


Departments 

General  Training . Director,  Graham  Taylor 

Social  Investigation . Director,  Sophonisba  P.  Breckinridge 

Assistant  Director,  Edith  Abbott 

Museum,  Library  and  Social  Publicity  .  .  Director,  Edward  L.  Burchard 

Registrar  (to  whom  all  correspondence  should  be  addressed)  Estelle  B.  Hunter 


Staff  of  Instruction 


Jane  Addams, 

Hull-House. 

Edith  Abbott, 

Associate  Director,  Department  of  Social 
Investigation. 

Grace  Abbott, 

Director,  Immigrants’  Protective  League, 
Chicago. 

Sophonisba  P.  Breckinridge, 

Director,  Department  of  Social  Investiga¬ 
tion.  Assistant  Professor  of  Social  Eco¬ 
nomy,  University  of  Chicago. 

Mrs.  Katherine  L.  Briggs, 

Field  Secretary,  United  Charities  of 
Chicago.  Supervisor  of  Students'  Field 
Work,  under  United  Charities. 

Edward  L.  Burchard, 

Director,  Museum,  Library  and  Social 
Publicity. 


William  Healy,  M.  D. 

Director,  Juvenile  Psychopathic  Institute, 
Chicago. 

Alexander  Johnson, 

Secretary,  National  Conference  of  Char¬ 
ities  and  Correction. 

Sherman  C.  Kingsley, 

Superintendent, United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Julia  C.  Lathrop, 

Hull-House. 

George  C.  Sikes, 

Secretary,  Chicago  Bureau  of  Municipal 
Efficiency.  Formerly  Secretary,  Muni¬ 
cipal  Voters’  League,  Chicago. 

Graham  Taylor, 

Warden,  Chicago  Commons.  Associate 
Editor  “The  Survey." 

Henry  W.  Thurston, 

Superintendent  Illinois  Children’s  Home 
and  Aid  Society. 


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Special  Lecturers  for  1910-11 


Charles  B.  Ball, 

Chief  Sanitary  Inspector,  City  of  Chicago. 

Dr.  David  Blaustein, 

Lecturer  on  Immigration. 

W.  L.  Bodine, 

Superintendent,  Compulsory  Department, 
Board  of  Education,  Chicago. 

Amos  W.  Butler, 

Secretary,  Board  of  State  Charities, 
Indiana. 

Helen  M.  Crittenden, 

Registrar,  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Henry  S.  Curtis, 

Lecturer  on  Play.  Formerly  Director  of 
Playgrounds,  New  York  City  and  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C. 

Edgar  T.  Davies, 

Chief,  State  Factory  Inspection  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Illinois. 

Edward  B.  DeGroot, 

Superintendent  of  Playgrounds,  South 
Park  Commission,  Chicago. 

W.  A.  Evans,  M.  D., 

Commissioner  of  Health,  City  of  Chicago. 

Henry  B.  Favill,  M.  D., 

President,  City  Club,  Chicago. 

James  A.  Field, 

Assistant  Professor  of  Political  Economy, 
University  of  Chicago. 

Harriet  Fulmer, 

Superintendent,  Visiting  Nurse  Associa¬ 
tion,  Chicago. 

Mrs.  John  M.  Glenn, 

Formerly  Secretary  Charity  Organization 
Department,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Luther  H.  Gulick, 

Director,  Child  Hygiene  Department, 
Russell  Sage  Foundation,  New  York. 

Hastings  H.  Hart, 

Director,  Department  of  Child  Hygiene, 
Russell  Sage  Foundation. 

Clark  W.  Hetherington, 

Joseph  Fels  Endowed  Fellowship  in 
Physical  Education;  formerly  of  the 
University  of  Missouri. 

Clara  Landsberg, 

Hull  House. 

Henry  E.  Legler, 

Librarian,  Chicago  Public  Library. 

Mary  E.  McDowell, 

Head-Resident,  University  of  Chicago 
Settlement.  . 

Francis  H.  McLean, 

Field  Secretary,  Charity  Organization 
Department,  Russell  Sage  Foundation. 


George  H.  Mead, 

Professor  of  Philosophy,  University  of 
Chicago. 

James  Mullenbach, 

Assistant  Superintendent,  United  Chari¬ 
ties  of  Chicago. 

Mrs.  Robert  L.  Parsons, 

Principal,  Chicago  School  of  Physical 
Education  and  Expression. 

Vaclav  H.  Podstata,  M.  D., 

Alienist. 

Mary  E.  Richmond, 

Director,  Charity  Organization  Depart¬ 
ment,  Russell  Sage  Foundation. 

Mrs.  Raymond  Robins, 

President  National  Women's  Trade  Union 
League. 

Theodore  Sachs,  M.  D., 

Chicago  Tuberculosis  Institute. 

Ethelbert  Stewart, 

Statistical  Staff,  Federal  Tariff  Board, 
Washington,  D.  C. ;  formerly  Special 
Agent,  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor. 

Graham  Romeyn  Taylor, 

Staff  of  The  Survey;  Secretary,  Play¬ 
ground  Association  of  Chicago. 

William  vl.  Thomas, 

Professor  of  Sociology,  University  of 
Chicago. 

James  H.  Tufts, 

Professor  of  Philosophy,  University  of 
Chicago. 

Howard  W.  Woodhead, 

Instructor  in  Sociology,  University  of 
Chicago. 

Lawrence  Veiller, 

Secretary  and  Director,  National  Housing 
Association,  New  York  City. 

Victor  Von  Borosini, 

Juvenile  Protective  Association. 

Edward  J.  Ward, 

Extension  Division,  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin;  formerly  Superintendent  of 
Social  Centers,  Public  Schools,  Rochester, 
N  Y. 

Frank  E.  Wing, 

Superintendent  Chicago  Tuberculosis  In¬ 
stitute. 

Frederick  H.  Wines, 

Statistician  State  Board  of  Administra¬ 
tion,  Springfield,  Ill. 

John  H.  Witter, 

Chief  Probation  Officer,  Juvenile  Court, 
Chicago. 

Edward  F.  Worst, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Joliet,  II 


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Schedule  of  Courses 


AUTUMN  TERM— OCTOBER-DECEMBER,  1910. 

(October  4th  to  December  21st.) 

1.  Survey  of  the  Field . 22  hours.  Required 

Monday,  Tuesday.  3  P.  M. 

2.  Principles  and  Methods  of  Relief  and  Family 

Rehabilitation . 44  hours.  Required 

Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Friday.  4  P.  M. 

3.  Social  Functions  of  Local  Government  44  hours.  Required 

Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Friday.  3  P.  M. 

WINTER  TERM— JANUARY-M  ARCH,  1911. 

(January  3d  to  March  17th.) 


4.  Housing  and  Public  Health . 22  hours.  Elective 

Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Friday. 

5.  Administration  of  Institutions . 22  hours.  Required 

Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Friday. 

6.  Social  Legislation . 22  hours.  Required 

Wednesday,  Friday. 

7.  Industrial  Efficiency . 22  hours.  Elective 

Monday,  Tuesday. 


SPRING  TERM— APRIL-JUNE,  1911. 

(March  28th  to  June  2d.) 


8. 

Public  Care  of  Children . 

Thursday,  Friday. 

4  P.  M. 

22  hours. 

Required 

9. 

Immigration  . 

Monday,  Tuesday. 

3  P.  M. 

.22  hours. 

Elective 

10. 

Physical  and  Psychical  Factors  of  Dependency  and 

Delinquency . 

Thursday,  Friday. 

3  P.  M. 

.  22  hours. 

Required 

11. 

Community  Co-operation . 

Monday,  Tuesday. 

4  P.  M. 

22  hours. 

Required 

12. 

Play  and  Playgrounds . 

.  .  44  hours. 

Elective 

Tuesday,  Wednesday.  2  P.  M. 

SUMMER  SESSION— JULY,  1911. 

(Begins  June  26th.) 

A.  Play  and  Playgrounds .  Elective 

B.  Occupation  for  Attendants  for  the  Insane .  Elective 


C.  Public  Service  in  Chicago,  Official  and  Private  Elective 

AUTUMN  TERM— 1911-1912. 

(Begins  October  2nd.) 

Course  practically  as  for  1910-1911  shown  above. 

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OPPORTUNITIES  AND  TRAINING 

Educated  men  and  women  are  increasingly  impressed  with  the  oppor¬ 
tunities  and  obligations  to  serve  their  community  in  some  definite  way. 
The  specilization  of  community  work  appeals  for  specific  knowledge  of 
some  branch  of  it  as  well  as  for  a  larger  social  intelligence.  This  appeal 
comes  with  more  force  than  hitherto  because  specialization  in  almost  every 
department  of  public  work  for  community  welfare  makes  special  prepara¬ 
tion  more  interesting,  available  and  practically  effective. 

The  Lecture  Courses  and  accompanying  Field  Work  provided  by  the 
school  as  here  described,  have  been  arranged  not  only  with  reference  to 
training  specialists,  but  to  presenting  in  a  one  year’s  curriculum  the  study 
of  the  whole  field  of  social  work  preparatory  to  engaging  in  any^of  its 
many  lines  of  practical  effort. 

In  Industry 

Industrial  efficiency,  as  the  demand  of  the  hour,  involves  not  only  craft 
skill  and  expert  management  of  business,  but  also  the  improvement  of  the 
human  conditions  and  relationships  of  industry.  To  this  end  are  required 
knowledge  of  the  historical  background  and  economic  evolution  out  of 
which  our  labor  problems  have  come  up  to  us  out  of  the  past,  and  also  very 
specific  training  in  the  observation  and  interpretation  of  present  conditions, 
movements,  organizations  and  forces.  Instead  of  adding  a  few  merely 
philanthropic  “welfare”  features  to  the  operation  of  their  plants,  mer¬ 
chants  and  manufacturers  are  placing  the  organization  of  their  industry 
itself  upon  more  of  a  social  basis. 

Industrial  leadership  more  and  more  exacts  high  social  initiative  and 
resourcefulness  of  those  who  aspire  to  be  leaders  in  commerce  and  manu¬ 
facturing.  As  the  social  intelligence  and  vision  of  such  leaders  increase 
they  are  seeking  these  qualities  in  their  subordinates,  and  are  creating  new 
positions  for  men  and  women  specially  trained  to  be  skillful  in  hygienic, 
recreative  and  organizing  work.  Such  positions  are  multiplying  and 
demanding  trained  service  of  various  kinds  in  shops  and  large  stores, 
telephone  exchanges  and  railway  companies,  mining  and  construction 
camps,  and  many  other  branches  of  industry. 

The  Course  offered  by  this  school  gives  specific  preparation  for  such 
service. 

Course  VII.  22  hours.  Winter  Term. 

Graham  Taylor,  Member  Illinois  Mining  Investigating  Commission, 

Warden  Chicago  Commons.  Edgar  T.  Davies,  Illinois  State  Factory 
Inspector.  Victor  von  Borosini  on  German  and  European  conditions, 
and  other  special  lecturers. 

Leadership  in  Play 

The  country-wide  spread  of  interest  in  and  equipment  for  recreation 
invests  the  playground  and  recreation  center  with  educational  and  civic 
value.  Playground  directors  are  needed  therefore,  who  can  not  only 
supervise  those  who  have  charge  of  the  gymnasium  floor  and  athletic  field 
but  who  can  promote  the  largest  use  of  the  equipment  by  all  classes  in  the 

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community  and  make  the  playground  the  center  for  training  both  younger 
and  older  people  in  community  co-operation  and  civic  spirit.  Public  school 
buildings  and  public  library  buildings,  settlement  houses  and  churches  are, 
singly  or  together — becoming  social  centers  for  civic  co-operation.  But 
their  use,  like  that  of  the  parks  and  playgrounds,  will  be  no  more  effective 
than  the  directors  of  their  work  are  efficient. 

The  demand  for  leaders  of  these  educative  recreation  centers  creates  the 
necessity  for  new  and  very  careful  training.  The  School  has  the  co-opera¬ 
tion  of  some  of  the  best  leaders  of  this  movement  and  also  the  object  lesson 
of  the  grestest  playgrounds  equipment  in  the  world,  which  the  Chicago 
playgrounds  are  conceded  to  possess.  A  recent  graduate  of  the  school 
stepped  almost  at  once  into  the  management  of  one  of  these  centers,  which 
under  his  sympathetic  and  skillful  management  is  becoming  nothing  less 
than  a  municipal  settlement. 

Course  XII.  22  hours.  Spring  Term.  Special  Course. 

Course  A.  Summer  Session. 

E.  B.  De  Groot,  Superintendent  Chicago  South  Park  playgrounds 
and  fieldhouses;  Dr.  Luther  H.  Gulick,  Director  Child  Hygiene 
Department,  Russell  Sage  Foundation;  Prof.  Clark  W.  Hetherington, 
University  of  Missouri;  Mrs.  R.  L.  Parsons,  Chicago  School  of  Physical 
Education;  Graham  R.  Taylor,  Secretary  Chicago  Playground  Asso¬ 
ciation;  and  other  specialists. 


Care  For  the  Immigrant 

Immigration,  which  strangely  has  been  neglected  by  educated  people  is 
becoming  a  fascinating  study  and  field  for  action  to  many  studious  and 
public  spirited  men  and  women.  It  affords  an  unmet  and  inviting  op¬ 
portunity  for  original  inquiry  and  patriotic  w^ork  in  helping  our  foreign 
bom  populations  to  that  intelligent  and  loyal  citizenship  to  which  they 
aspire.  Immigrants’  Protective  Leagues,  schools  for  citizenship,  and  other 
similar  agencies  are  demanding  far  more  helpers  of  broad  intelligence, 
trained  sypmathies  and  resourceful  knowledge  of  tributary  sources  of  help 
than  any  community  has  yet  been  able  to  furnish. 

Course  IX.  22  hours.  Spring  Term. 

Grace  Abbott,  Director  of  the  Immigrants’  Protective  League,  Chicago, 

James  A.  Field,  Assistant  Professsor  of  Political  Economy,  University 
of  Chicago,  and  other  special  lecturers. 


Child  Welfare 

Child  helping  agencies  including  not  only  more  charitable  and  reforma¬ 
tory  efforts  and  institutions  than  ever  before,  but  far  more  initiation  and 
management  of  preventive,  protective,  preoccupying  and  constructive 
movements  than  there  are  trained  people  to  initiate  and  manage.  Public 
institutions,  as  well  as  such  private  enterprises  as  boys  and  girls  clubs  and 
camps,  juvenile  protective  associations,  the  Knights  of  King  Arthur  and 
the  Boy  Scouts  and  many  Settlement  and  church  activities  for  children 
are  crippled  for  the  lack  of  managers  and  helpers,  who  are  trained  in  a 
modem  practical  way  to  deal  with  boys  and  girls  and  young  people. 


OPPORTUNITIES  AND  TRAINING 


Course  VIII.  22  hours.  Spring  Term. 

Henry  W.  Thurston,  Superintendent  Illinois  Childrens  Home  and 
Aid  Society,  assisted  by  J.  H.  Witter,  Chief  Probation  Officer  of  Juve¬ 
nile  Court,  W.  L.  Bodine,  Compulsory  Department  Chicago  Board  of 
Education,  and  special  lecturers. 

Physical  and  Psychical  Factors  of  Dependency  and  Delinquency. 
Course X.  22  hours.  Spring  Term. 

Wm.  Healy,  M.  D.,  Director  Juvenhe  Psycnopathic  Institute  with 
headquarters  at  Juvenile  Court,  Chicago. 


Charities 

Relief  of  the  dependent  has  become  scientific  n  its  understanding  of 
poverty-produ«ing  conditions  in  its  classification  and  registration  of  facts, 
in  its  enlistment  of  community-wide  co-operation  and  in  the  prevention 
of  dependency  and  the  restoration  of  self  help.  Relief  work  has  thus 
attained  recognized  professional  status  and  those  who  lead  in  it  are  rightly 
regarded  as  scientific  specialists. 

The  course  on  principles  and  methods  of  relief  and  family  rehabilitation 
giving  not  only  historical  development,  but  investigation,  concrete  prob¬ 
lems  and  study  of  the  forces  available  for  treatment,  has  commanded  the 
services  of  noted  specialists  from  the  east  and  west.  The  district  work  of 
the  United  Charities  of  Chicago  has  afforded  the  best  possible  practice 
fields  under  expert  supervision  for  the  study  of  the  school. 

Course  II.  44  hours.  Autumn  Term. 

S.  C.  Kingsley,  Superintendent  United  Charities,  Chicago,  assisted  by 
Mary  E.  Richmond,  Director,  and  F.  H.  McLean,  Field  Secretary, 

Charity  Organization  Department  Russell  Sage  Foundation;  Mrs.  John 
M.  Glenn,  New  York  Charity  Organization  Society,  and  Mrs.  K.  L. 

Briggs,  Assistant  Superintendent  United  Charities,  Supervisor  of  Field 
Work;  Edith  Abbott  Associate  Director  Department  of  Social 
Investigation 

Administration  of  Institutions 

Charitable  and  reformatory  institutions  and  agencies  are  requiring 
specialists  to  manage  them  and  specially  trained  helpers  for  their  staffs 
and  in  their  boards  of  management.  Now,  never  as  before,  trained  service 
is  demanded  for  the  scientific  and  social  treatment  of  defectives — the 
msane,  feeble-minded,  epileptic,  blind  and  crippled;  for  the  reformation 
and  restoration  of  the  delinquent  classes — truant  children,  juvenile  de¬ 
linquents  under  the  care  of  juvenile  courts  or  reformatory  institutions, 
and  the  wayward  or  exploited  youth  before  they  fall  under  the  custody 
of  the  state;  and  for  the  public  care  of  the  homeless,  the  aged,  and  the  in¬ 
capacitated  . 

The  positions  opening  in  all  this  service  appeal'for  men  and  women  who 
not  only  will  enter  them  with  the  humane  purpose  to  relieve  and  prevent 
suffering,  but  who  will  fit  themselves  to  do  so  by  special  training.  Many 
of  these  public  institutions  maintain  training  classes  to  increase  the  effi¬ 
ciency  of  their  service  and  some  of  them  either  send  attendants,  nurses 
and  other  officers  to  take  special  courses  in  this  School  or  require  applicants 
to  do  so. 


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THE  NEW  PROFESSION 


Course  V.  22  hours.  Winter  Term. 

Alexander  Johnson,  Secretary  National  Conference  of  Charities  and 
Correction,  Amos  W.  Butler,  Secretary  Indiana  State  Board  of  Charities 
and  Frederick  Howard  Wines,  Statistician,  Illinois  Board  of  Adminis¬ 
tration. 


Housing  and  Public  Health 

Public  health  is  demanding  and  receiving  the  expert  service  of  social 
workers.  Much  of  the  effort  to  prevent  the  rise  and  spread  of  disease  as 
well  as  to  take  after-care  of  convalescents  must  be  done,  if  at  all,  either  by 
those  especially  fitted  and  devoted  to  such  work,  or  by  nurses  and  atten¬ 
dants  who  are  especially  trained  for  this  additional  professional  function 
New'  opportunities  are  thus  opening  to  nurses  and  physicians,  and  new 
fields  to  those  trained  to  supplement  their  work. 

Course  IV.  22  hours.  Winter  Term. 

Sophonisba  P.  Breckinridge  and  Edith  Abbott,  Directors  of  the  recent 
Chicago  Housing  Inquiry;  assisted  by  Lawrence  Veiller,  Director, 
National  Housing  Association,  New  York;  Chas.  B.  Ball,  Chief 
Sanitary  Inspector,  Chicago;  and  other  specialists. 

General  Neighborhood  and  Civic  Work 

The  departmental  administration  and  planning  of  cities  and  towns  are 
exacting  of  private  citizens  and  public  officials  a  knowledge  of  municipal 
history  and  present  conditions,  a  familiarity  wdth  the  practical  workings 
of  city  government,  and  a  vision  of  the  possibilities  of  civic  progress,  such 
as  has  not  hitherto  been  attained  or  sought  by  many. 

Chicago  is  perhaps  the  most  open  field  for  study  along  all  these  lines  for 
civic  development.  The  successful  struggle  of  the  Municipal  Voters 
League  for  integrity  and  capacity  in  the  city  council,  the  effort  to  place  the 
administration  of  the  departments  of  the  City  Government  upon  an  effi¬ 
cient  and  uniform  business  basis  through  the  Bureau  of  Public  Efficiency; 
the  public  and  private  wrork  for  better  housing;  the  endeavor  of  the  police 
and  the  city  Vice  Commission  to  rectrict  and  suppress  vicious  conditions, 
and  the  co-operation  of  the  public  library,  public  schools,  public  park 
commissions  to  substitute  good  recreations  for  evil  amusements;  the 
great  Plan  for  Chicago  in  the  realization  of  which  the  Chicago  Plan  Com¬ 
mission  purposes  to  make  this  city  one  of  the  most  beautiful,  healthful  and 
attractive  cities  of  the  world — all  these  rapidly  developing  movements 
enable  Chicago  to  present  perhaps  the  greatest  object  lesson  for  study  and 
observation,  which  America  has  ever  produced. 

Course  I.  Survey  of  the  Field.  22  hours.  Autumn  Term. 

Graham  Taylor,  President  of  the  School,  and  Associate  Editor  The 
Survey. 

Course  III.  Social  Functions  of  Local  Government.  44  hours. 

Autumn  Term. 

Geo.  C.  Sikes,  Secretary  Chicago  Bureau  of  Public  Efficiency  and 
Grace  Abbott,  Hull  House. 

Course  VI.  Social  Legislation.  22  hours.  Winter  Term. 

Grace  Abbott,  Editor  Summary  of  Juvenile  Court  Laws;  Prof.  Ernst 
Freund,  Professor  of  Jurisprudence,  University  of  Chicago  and  special 
lectures  by  distinguished  jurists. 


SPECIAL  FACILITIES 


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Course  XI.  Community  Co-operation.  22  hours.  Spring 

Term. 

Graham  Taylor,  Jane  Addams,  Hull  House;  Mary  E.  McDowell, 
Head  Resident,  University  of  Chicago  Settlement;  Dr.  David  Blaustein. 
Fels  Lectureship;  E.  J.  Ward,  Organizer  of  Civic  and  Social  Centers, 
University  of  Wisconsin;  Clara  Landsberg.  Hull  House. 


SPECIAL  FACILITIES 


Visits  of  Inspection 


The  personal  service  is  availed  of  by  the  school  of  specialists  who  are 
in  charge  of  city  departments,  public  institutions  and  agencies,  social 
settlements  and  such  specialized  private  agencies  as  the  Juvenile  Pro¬ 
tective  Association,  the  Playground  Association,  the  Legal  Aid  Society, 
the  Central. Howard  Association,  the  Juvenile  Psychopathic  Institute,  the 
Tuberculosis  Institute,  the  Children’s  Home  and  Aid  Society,  the  United 
Charities  and  many  others  and  excursions  of  observation  are  made  weekly. 


Practice  Work 

Practice  work  on  the  field  under  expert  supervision  is  considered  fully  as 
important  as  the  instruction  given  in  the  class  room.  Therefore  each 
student  is  assigned  to  field  work  for  one-half  of  each  working  day.  After 
the  full  round  of  experience  is  given  in  one  of  the  United  Charieties  dis¬ 
tricts  during  half  the  year,  the  assignment  to  field  work  may  be  changed 
in  accordance  with  the  specialized  work  for  which  the  student  is  training. 

In  this  use  of  the  City  of  Chicago  as  a  great  laboratory,  the  School  has 
always  enjoyed  the  cordial  co-operation  of  public  officials  and  private 
citizens  who  give  the  freest  access  to  the  city’s  life  and  work  and  many  of 
whom  assist  the  school  with  talks  and  addresses  on  their  work.  This 
stirring  center  of  social  activity  and  civic  development  offers  for  practice 
or  inspection  among  other  things; 

Social  settlements,  some  world  renowned,  in  extensive  foreign  and  immigrant 
colonies,  within  easy  access  of  the  school. 

Consolidated  system  of  charities  with  wide  district  organization,  employment  offices, 
creche,  public  laundry,  summer  camps,  hospital  social  service  and  large  county  charita¬ 
ble  institutions. 

Juvenile  court  building  and  every  form  of  child  caring. 

Playground  centers  and  municipal  and  state  recreational  system  characterized 
by  President  Roosevelt  as  leading  in  equipment  and  maintenance. 

Industries — presenting  all  phases  of  welfare  work  and  inspection. 

Education  for  the  people — schools,  kindergartens,  libraries,  art  gallery,  museums. 

Remedical  Agencies — Courts,  probation  system,  reformatories,  prisons,  asylums 
hospitals,  institutional  churches,  civic  organizations. 

As  seen  from  the  frontispiece  map  the  school  is  strategically  located  with 
reference  to  this  field  of  social  study  and  work. 


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THE  NEW  PROFESSION 


Social  Investigation 

This  Department  offers  training  in  the  application  of  statistical  methods 
to  social  problems  involving  both  the  field  work  and  technique  of  social 
inquiry.  It  enjoys  an  annual  grant  from  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation  by 
which  it  undertakes  special  inquiries  in  co-operation  with  official  depart¬ 
ments  of  Chicago. 

The  result  of  its  inquiry  into  conditions  productive  of  child  delinquency 
in  Chicago  will  soon  be  published  by  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation  in  two 
volumes,  “The  Child  and  the  Home”  and  “The  Child  and  the  Court.” 
The  inquiry  into  Housing  Conditions  in  Chicago  undertaken  last  year  is  in 
progress  of  completion  and  three  preliminary  studies  have  appeared  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Sociology.  “The  Housing  of  Non-Family  Groups  of 
Working  Men,”  “Families  in  Furnished  Rooms,”  and  “Housing  Conditions 
in  the  Twenty-Ninth  Ward.”  The  Department  is  engaged  this  year  upon 
a  study  of  truancy  in  Chicago. 

The  purpose  of  all  investigations  undertaken  by  the  Department  is  the 
ascertainment  of  such  facts  as  will  lead  either  to  an  improvement  in  the 
legislation  governing  the  institutions  studied,  or  to  a  more  effective  en¬ 
forcement  of  existing  legislation  by  more  adequate  appropriation.  The 
students  employed  in  this  work  thus  not  only  participate  directly  in  useful 
social  work  but  gain  familiarity  at  the  same  time  with  methods  of  social 
science  and  statistics  as  applied  practically  to  immediate  needs  and  better¬ 
ments. 

The  students  in  this  Department  during  the  current  year  hold  degrees 
from  the  University  of  Chicago,  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  the  University  of 
Missouri,  Northwestern  University,  Vassar  College  and  Western  Reserve. 
Students  of  former  years  now  occupy  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility. 

More  detailed  information  with  reference  to  the  methods  of  instruction, 
appointment  of  students  and  scope  of  the  work  may  be  obtained  on  ap¬ 
plication  to  the  Registrar. 

Social  Museum  and  Library 

In  a  professional  school  even  more  than  in  a  general  university  or  college, 
instruction,  practice  work,  and  research  must  be  supplemented  by  books 
and  illustrative  material.  The  duration  of  the  professional  course  is  com¬ 
paratively  so  short  and  the  latest  developments  are  so  new  and  widespread 
that  every  short  circuit  afforded  by  literature  and  graphic  means  must  be 
utilized.  This  is  particularly  true  of  scientific  schools  and  art  schools 
where  abundant  books,  pictures,  models  or  other  museum  materials  to 
put  the  student  in  quick  and  vital  possession  of  the  subject. 

The  extent  of  such  illustrative  material  in  the  social  field  is  shown  in  the 
Social  Service  Library  of  New  York,  the  Musee  Social  of  Paris,  the  Peabody 
Social  Museum  at  Harvard  and  the  municipal  museums  of  German  cities. 
Even  more  so  perhaps  by  the  numerous  educational  exhibits  made  recently 
in  this  field,  the  Child  Welfare  Exhibit  at  the  71st  Regiment  Armory.  New 
York,  the  many  tuberculosis  traveling  exhibits,  the  exhibits  of  safety 
appliances,  the  great  New  York  Budget  exhibit,  Infant  Mortality  exhibit, 
etc. 


SPECIAL  FACILITIES 


177 


Nearly  1,000  books  and  300  boxes  of  pamphlets  on  social  and  civic  sub¬ 
jects  are  in  the  library  of  the  school  for  the  use  of  students  either  as  sup¬ 
plementary  reading  or  as  current  information  in  this  field.  The  most  recent 
ephemeral  literature,  reports,  programs,  announcements,  etc.,  come  in 
from  the  settlements  and  many  institutions  with  which  the  school  is  in 
close  relation.  For  wider  investigation  there  are  40,000  volumes  on  soci¬ 
ology  alone  at  the  Crerar  Library  two  blocks  away  and  about  as  many 
more  at  the  Public  Library  equally  near  at  hand,  including  sets  of  serials 
and  documents  of  cities  and  institutions.  A  trained  librarian  is  in  constant 
attendance  at  the  school  ready  to  assist  students  so  far  as  demands  on  her 
time  permit,  and  to  prepare  reference  lists. 

Exhibits 

In  the  School’s  museum  acquired  from  the  former  municipal  museum  of 
Chicago,  there  are  about  700  flat  pieces,  including  large  drawings,  dia¬ 
grams,  water  colors,  bromide  enlargements,  etc.,  illustrating  the  city  plans 
of  many  European  and  American  cities,  industrial  conditions,  housing, 
parks,  public  baths,  harbors,  civic  buildings,  etc.  There  are  also  lantern 
slides,  spectroscopes,  and  a  few  models. 

More  important,  however,  for  the  immediate  use  of  the  student,  are  the 
traveling  loan  exhibits  received  from  national  associations  of  various 
social  movements.  The  charities  exhibit  of  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation, 
shown  at  the  school  in  the  Autumn  term  and  the  Housing  Exhibit  from  the 
National  Housing  Association  now  on  display  are  examples  of  the  larger 
resources  placed  at  the  command  of  students.  There  are  67  social  move¬ 
ments  in  the  United  States  many  of  which  have  material  useful  for  inter¬ 
preting  their  special  social  service. 

The  School  also  prepares  occasional  exhibits  showing  the  field  of  its 
work  that  have  been  placed  on  exhibition  in  other  cities.  It  is  hoped  that 
the  scope  of  this  form  of  social  publicity  may  be  broadened  and  that  the 
students  may  be  able  to  assist  in  the  formation  of  exhibits  that  will  in¬ 
struct  those  who  are  unable  to  come  to  the  School,  as  well  as  the  public 
generally.  • 

Reference  Work 

Clubs,  officials  or  others  desiring  reference  lists  of  literature  prepared, 
or  inquiries  made  on  social  or  civic  topics  can  have  them  made  at  cost  by 
the  school.  Address  the  librarian. 

Extension 

A  course  of  six  lectures,  one  to  be  given  each  month  at  St.  Paul’s  Parish 
House,  Kenwood,  Chicago,  began  in  October.  The  following  program  is 
in  progress: 

October  31,  3  P.  M.  “Co-operation  between  Public  and  Private  Charity,”  by  Sher¬ 
man  C.  Kingsley,  Superintendent  of  the  United  Charities. 

Novemebr  21,  12  M.  “Emergency  Relief,”  by  James  C.  Mullenbach,  Assistant 
Superintendent,  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

December  19,  12  M.  “Industrial  Accidents  in  Relation  to  Poverty,”  by  Graham 
Taylor,  President,  Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 

January  16,  12  M.  “Protective  Legislation  for  Women  in  Relation  to  Poverty,” 
by  Miss  Anna  E.  Nicholes,  of  Neighborhood  House. 


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THE  NEW  PROFESSION 


February  20,  12  M.  “Efficient  Administration  of  Factory  Legislation,"  by  Mr. 
Edgar  T.  Davies,  Chief  Factory  Inspector. 

March  20,  12  M.  “The  Problem  of  the  14  to  16  year  old  child  in  relation  to  Indus¬ 
trial  Inefficiency  and  Poverty,”  by  Miss  Sophonisba  P.  Breckinridge. 

Special  Lectures  at  the  School 

Miss  Margaret  MacMillan  of  London  on  “The  Feeding  of  School  Children.” 
Mr.  Owen  R.  Lovejoy,  Secretary  of  the  National  Child  Labor  Committee 
on  the  work  of  the  committee. 

Through  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dummer,  the  school  was  able  to 
have  one  of  the  three  lectures  given  in  Chicago  by  Dr.  Albert  Suedekum 
of  Berlin,  member  of  the  Reichstag.  He  spoke  in  the  large  Assembly 
Room  to  students  and  guests  of  the  School  on  “How  German  Cities  Serve 
Their  Citizens.” 

Mr.  Kennedy,  a  member  of  the  University  of  Chicago  faculty,  and  di¬ 
rector  of  the  University  of  Chicago  Settlement  Investigation  on  the  aim  and 
methods  of  the  investigation  now  in  progress. 

Professor  Thomas  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Research  Department,  addressed  the  school  on,  “A  Standpoint  from 
which  to  Study  the  Immigrant  Races.” 

Miss  Co  man,  Mr.  Besno  and  several  representatives  of  the  striking  gar¬ 
ment  workers  presented  the  strike  situation  to  the  students  of  Dr.  Taylor’s 
class,  “The  Survey  of  the  Social  Field.” 

During  the  garment  workers  strike  several  of  the  students  of  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Social  Investigation  interviewed  groups  of  workers  in  skilled 
trades.  The  reports  of  these  interviews  formed  the  basis  of  the  report  of 
the  Sub-Committee  to  the  Citizens  Committee,  November  5th,  1910, 
which  was  published  by  Miss  Breckinridge,  Director  of  the  Department  of 
Social  Research,  Professor  George  H.  Mead  and  Miss  Anna  E.  Nicholes. 

Dr.  Alice  Hamilton  of  Hull  House  on  the  International  Congress  on 
Industrial  Diseases  recently  held  at  Brussels. 

THE  REGISTRATION 

Since  Organization 

1903  to  1911.  Total,  1013. 

1903- 04 — Enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  31. 

1904- 05 — Enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  16. 

1905- 06 — Full  course,  1;  enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  106;  summer 
term,  39;  total,  146. 

1906- 07 — Full  course,  3;  enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  96;  total,  99. 

1907- 08 — Full  course,  7;  enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  114;  summer 
term,  61;  24  from  state  institutions;  total,  182. 

1908- 09 — Full  course,  12;  enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  64;  summer 
term,  75;  29  from  state  institutions;  research,  13;  total,  164. 

1909- 10 — Full  course,  15;  enrolled  for  one  or  more  terms,  263;  summer 
term,  40;  19  from  state  institutions;  research,  13;  total,  291. 

1910- 11 — Full  Course,  28;  enrolled  to  January,  84;  Grand  Total,  1013. 
Less  duplication. 


THE  REGISTRATION 


179 


Autumn  Term,  1910-1911 

The  resistrar’s  report  for  the  first  term  of  the  year  1910-11  shows: 
Total  number  of  students  enrolled,  84,  of  which  9  are  in  the  Department 
of  Social  Investigation.  There  are  37  men  and  47  women  coming  from  20 
states,  and  from  two  foreign  countries,  Persia  and  Turkey.  They  represent 
67  educational  institutions,  one-third  being  college  graduates,  one-third 
under-graduates,  one-sixth  are  High  School  graduates  with  sufficient 
experience  to  admit  them  as  regular  students,  and  the  remaining  one- 
sixth  are  unclassified  students  doing  special  work. 

Of  the  28  full  course  students,  25  have  performed  field  work  as  visitors 
for  the  United  Charities  Society  under  the  immediate  direction  of  the 
district  superintendents  who  allot  work  to  each  student  according  to  plans 
made  and  supervised  by  Mrs.  Katherine  L.  Briggs,  field  secretary  of  the 
Society.  During  the  winter  quarter  field  work  will  be  continued  under 
other  social  agency. 

To  compare  the  registration  for  two  years: 

1909-10  1910-11 


AUTUMN  TERM  - - 

Total  number  of  students  enrolled .  55  84 

Students  taking  full  course .  15  28 

Men  enrolled .  17  37 

Women  enrolled .  38  47 


Educational  Institutions  Represented 

Albion  College. 

American  Conservatory  of  Music. 

Avalon  College,  Missouri. 

Athens  University,  Athens,  Greece. 

Birmingham  University,  Birmingham, 

England. 

Beloit  College,  Michigan. 

Berlin  University,  Berlin,  Germany. 

Bethany  College,  West  Virginia. 

Chicago  Froebel  Association. 

Chicago  Theological  Seminary. 

Cogswell  Polytechnic  School,  San  Francisco, 

California. 

Colorado  College,  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado 
Congregational  Training  School  for  Women, 

Chicago. 

Drury  College,  Springfield,  Missouri. 

Dennison  University,  Granville,  Ohio. 

Epworth  Seminary,  Epworth,  Iowa. 

Fairmount  College,  Wichita,  Kansas. 

Franklin  College. 

Friends’  Universitj\  Wichita,  Kansas. 


Glasgow  University,  Scotland. 

Hanover  College. 

Hahneman  Medical  College. 

Hiram  College,  Hiram,  Ohio. 

Iowa  State  College. 

Iowa  State  University. 

Irving  Female  College,  Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 

Kentucky  State  University. 

Lawrence  University. 

Lander  Clark  College,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Lake  Forest  College,  Lake  Forest,  Illinois. 
Lincoln  University,  Lincoln,  Illinois. 

Lewis  Institute,  Chicago. 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 
Mason  College,  Birmingham,  England. 
Missouri  State  University. 

Moody  Bible  Institute,  Chicago. 

McMaster  College,  Wayne,  Nevada. 

Nebraska  Normal  College. 

Northwestern  University,  Evanston,  Ill. 
New  York  Training  School  for  Deaconesses. 
New  York  Post  Graduate  Medical  School. 
Norway  Gymnasium. 


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THE  NEW  PROFESSION 


Educational  Institutions  Represented — Continued 


Oberlin  Academy. 

Olivet  College,  Olivet,  Mich. 

Palmer  College.  * 

Penn  College,  Oskaloosa,  Iowa. 

Sioux  Falls  College,  Sioux  Falls,  South 
Dakota. 

Salonica  Gymnasium,  Salonica,  Turkey. 
Sorbonne,  Paris,  France. 

Smith  College. 

Stanford  University,  Palo  Alto,  California. 

Tarkio  College,  Tarkio,  Ohio. 

Teacher’s  Training  School,  Springfield,  Ill, 


Urumia  College,  Urumia,  Persia. 

University  of  Illinois,  Champaign,  Illinois. 
University  of  Chicago. 

University  of  Wisconsin. 

University  of  Michigan. 

University  of  Minnesota. 

Valparaiso  University. 

Vassar  College. 

Washburn  College. 

Wellesley  College. 

Woman's  Medical  College. 

Y.  M.  C.  A.  Training  School,  Chicago. 
Ypsilanti  Normal  School,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 


Employment 

The  Social  Exchange  is  conducted  by  the  School  primarily  in  the  interests 
of  its  students,  but  persons  and  agencies  not  connected  with  the  school 
who  can  be  unreservedly  recommended  are  aided  so  far  as  the  resources 
of  the  school  permit.  Since  the  opening  of  this  school  year  October  4th, 
1910,  it  has  been  instrumental  in  filling  the  following  positions: 

Mrs.  Sara  Price  Doney  has  accepted  a  position  as  assistant  head  resident 
of  the  Kings  Daughter  Settlement  Home,  in  Freeport,  Illinois. 

Miss  Sabina  Marshall  has  become  a  resident  worker  of  Greenwich  House, 
New  York  City. 

Mrs.  Emma  Henderson  is  now  installed  as  matron  of  the  Mary  Etten 
Creche,  situated  on  the  South  Side  of  Chicago. 

The  Cheerful  Home  Settlement,  Quincy,  Illinois,  has  secured  Mr.  H.  C. 
Webster  as  director  of  its  Boys  Club. 


Occupations 

The  following  short  list  illustrates  the  occupations  followed  by  some  of 
the  students  upon  completion  of  the  training  given  by  the  school: 


Agnes  Aiken . Head  Resident,  Toledo  Settlement,  Ohio. 

Jessie  F.  Bell . Assistant  to  the  Head  Resident,  University  of 

Chicago  Settlement. 

Anne  Davis . Aid  Department,  Illinois  Children’s  Home  and 

Aid  Society. 

Jessica  Foster . Truant  Officer,  Chicago. 

Gertrude  Murrell . Truant  Officer,  Chicago. 

Corrine  Rosenfeld . Visitor,  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Marjorie  Sargent . Visitor,  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Edith  Tate . Assistant  Field  Secretary,  Anti -Tuberculosis 

Society,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Kathrene  Gedney . Field  Secretary,  Anti  Tuberculosis  Society, 

Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Mary  Dranga  Graebe . Assistant,  J  u  ven  ile  Psychopathic  Institute, 

Chicago,  Ill. 

Joseph  L.  Moss . Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer,  Chicago. 


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Julia  B.  Stem . Associated  Jewish  Charities,  Chicago. 

Gertrude  Vaile . Visitor,  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Louise  Cottrell . Visitor,  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Helen  Friend . District  Superintendent,  United  Charities, 

Chicago. 

Sidney  Teller . Director,  West  Park  No.  2,  Recreation  Center. 

Thomas  W.  Sprowls . Resident  Director  of  Pittsburg  Playground. 

Helen  Jewell . Chief  Probation  Officer,  Evanston,  Illinois. 

Mary  E.  Hunter . University  of  Chicago  Settlement,  Chicago. 

Arthur  J.  Strawson . Financial  Secretary,  Gads  Hill  Settlement, 

Chicago. 

Ethel  Hanks . Forewoman,  large  Milwaukee  Factory. 

Milton  B.  Hunt . Visiting  and  Investigating  Staff  of  Immigrants' 

Protective  League,  Chicago. 

William  L.  Chenery . Reporter,  Chicago  Evening  Post. 

Harry  Herwitz . Civil  Service  (Clerical  Work)  Chicago. 

Caro  Bugbey  MacArthur.  .Special  Investigator,  University  of  Chicago  Set¬ 
tlement. 

Stella  Packard . Probation  Work,  Los  Angeles,  California. 

Edith  Terry . Social  Service  Secretary,  Fall  River,  Mass. 

Stella  Hitchcock . Visitor  for  United  Charities,  Chicago. 

Mrs.  I.  D  Stebbins, . Assistant  Bureau  of  Legal  Aid,  Chicago. 

Wilhelmina  Piehler . Assistant  Head  Resident,  Franklin  Street  Set¬ 

tlement.  Detroit,  Michigan. 

SCHOOL  AND  ALUMNI  NOTES 

The  October  number  of  “Progress,”  the  quarterly  periodical  of  the 
British  Institute  of  Social  Service  devotes  its  leading  article  to  an  ap¬ 
preciative  description  of  the  Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 
It  is  written  by  Mr.  A.  K.  Maynard,  Honorary  Secretary  of  the  Institute, 
who  was  much  interested  in  the  school  while  a  resident  of  Chicago  and 
associated  with  the  work  of  Chicago  Commons,  the  Northwestern  Univer¬ 
sity  Settlement,  and  the  United  Charities.  Since  returning  to  England 
with  his  family,  he  has  again  become  a  resident  of  Mansfield  House  Social 
Settlement,  where  he  rendered  several  years  of  highly  valued  service  before 
coming  to  America. 


T  rustees 

The  Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy  shares  with  the  city  of 
Chicago  and  the  University  a  great  loss  in  the  removal  of  Professor  George 
E.  Vincent  to  the  presidency  of  the  University  of  Minnesota  at  Minnea¬ 
polis.  From  its  very  inception  the  school  has  had  no  more  cordial  friend¬ 
ship  or  firmer  confidence  in  its  future  from  any  one  of  its  friends  than  from 
Professor  Vincent.  We  expect  a  continuance  of  his  co-operation  in  the 
larger  sphere  of  influence  to  which  he  goes  and  in  which  he  will  be  asso¬ 
ciated  with  Professor  John  H.  Gray,  who  both  at  Northwestern  University 


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and  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  has  been  one  of  the  most  actively  in¬ 
terested  of  its  trustees. 

Miss  Julia  C.  Lathrop,  Vice-President  of  the  School,  who  has  been  at¬ 
tending  important  Congresses  abroad  on  Labor  Legislation  will  be  in  India 
until  February,  when  she  will  go  to  Japan.  She  returns  in  May. 

F  acuity 

Professor  Taylor  gave  addresses  at  two  general  sessions  of  the 
Minnesota  State  Conference  of  Charities  at  Crookston  in  November  and 
later  the  State  University  of  North  Dakota  Convocation.  He  also  gave 
an  address  before  the  International  Convention  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris¬ 
tian  Association  at  Toronto.  On  all  of  these  occasions  he  held  confer¬ 
ences  with  students  on  the  opportunities  for  men  and  women  to  enter 
upon  special  work. 

As  the  result  of  a  report  presented  by  him  on  the  “Function  of  the 
Church  in  the  Industrial  Sphere,”  the  National  Council  of  Congregational 
Churches  established  a  department  of  “Labor  and  Social  Service,”  under 
the  management  of  the  Brotherhoods  of  the  churches.  At  a  conference 
of  representatives  from  seventy-two  cities  held  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Professor 
Taylor  presented  “The  Social  Emphasis  in  Religious  Work.” 

In  addition  to  Professor  Taylor's  other  civic  work  he  has  served,  by 
appointment  of  the  Governor  of  Illinois,  on  the  Illinois  Mining  Invest¬ 
gating  Commission,  and  upon  appointment  by  the  Mayor  of  Chicago,  as 
member  of  the  Chicago  Vice  Commission. 

Miss  Breckinridge  presented  some  of  the  results  of  the  inquiry  as  to 
Juveoile  Delinquency  and  Dependency  before  the  Chicago  Women's  Club, 
the  National  Conference  of  Charities  and  Corrections  at  St.  Louis,  and  the 
Illinois  State  Conference  of  Charities  at  Galesburg  in  October,  and 
together  with  Miss  Abbott  to  the  Association  of  Probation  Officers  at  the 
Indianapolis  Meeting,  and  also  to  the  principals  of  Chicago  Schools. 

Miss  Edith  Abbott  presented  the  material  of  the  second  inquiry  of  the 
Department  of  Social  Investigation  “The  Chicago  Housing  Problem”  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Chicago  Women's  Aid  which  was  given  over  to  the 
subject  of  housing  reform. 

Mr.  Burchard  addressed  the  Freeport  Women's  Club  in  December  on 
the  work  of  the  School.  He  prepared  the  exhibit  of  the  School  shown  at 
the  St.  Louis  National  Conference.  This  was  later  sent  to  the  Galesburg 
conference.  During  the  past  year  he  has  acted  as  Secretary  of  the  Chicago 
Council  for  Library  and  Museum  Extension,  an  official  body  of  these  in¬ 
stitutions  in  Chicago. 

Miss  Ruth  G.  Nichols,  graduate  of  the  Pratt  Institute  Library  School, 
1905,  Brooklyn,  and  for  the  past  five  years  documentary  reference  librarian 
and  in  charge  of  the  library  of  the  American  Telegraph  and  Telephone 
Company,  New  York,  has  been  secured  as  librarian  for  the  school.  Miss 
Nichols'  father  is  pastor  at  Rogers  Park,  Chicago. 

Afternoon  social  assemblies  have  been  given  weekly  by  the  students  at 
the  School  for  the  purpose  of  helping  fellowship  among  themselves  and 
between  them  and  the  lecturers. 

At  the  opening  of  the  school  October  10th,  Miss  Vail,  president  of  the 


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class  1909-10  welcomed  this  year’s  class  and^Dr.  Taylor  gave  a  brief  sketch 
of  the  work  being  done  by  the  members  of  last  year’s  class. 

October  31st,  a  student’s  reception  was  given  in  honor  of  Miss  Mary  E. 
Richmond,  of  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation,  at  the  close  of  her  series  of 
ten  lectures  on  “The  Principles  and  Methods  of  Relief;”  October  27th, 
Miss  Addams  gave  a  reception  in  her  honor  at  Hull  House. 

Alumni 

To  the  class  of  1910  is  due  the  initiative  and  organization  of  the  alumni 
association  of  the  Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy.  Forty 
former  students  of  the  school,  together  with  several  instructors,  gathered 
at  a  dinner  given  by  the  class  at  Chicago  Commons,  on  the  evening  of  the 
closing  day  of  their  course,  June  3,  1910.  On  this  occasion  the  new  con¬ 
stitution  and  by-laws  for  the  organization  of  the  association  adopted, 
provided  for  two  meetings  a  year,  one  at  the  school  graduation  in  June, 
the  other  a  fellowship  dinner  during  the  session  of  the  National  Conference. 

Association  Officers  for  1910-1911 

All  eligible  to  either  regular  or  associate  membership  in  general  or 
special  associations  are  requested  to  send  their  names  and  addresses  to  the 
proper  secretary-treasurer,  care  of  the  school. 

The  following  officers  were  elected;  President,  Miss  Gertrude  Vaile, 
class  ’10;  vice-president,  Sidney  A.  Teller,  class  ’09;  secretary-treasurer, 
Miss  Julia  B.  Stem,  class  ’10.  Members  at  large  of  Administrative  Com¬ 
mittee,  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Graebe,  Mrs.  Ida  D.  Stebbins,  Miss  Sarah  West  Ryder 
and  William  E.  Graham. 

Summer  School  Class  Organization 

1909 

The  summer  class  of  1909  was  the  first  to  organize  by  the  election  of 
Rev.  Ernest  Bradley,  Kentfield,  California,  as  president,  and  Jake  Gimbel, 
Vincennes,  Indiana,  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  This  class  also  established 
the  first  summer  school  scholarships.  Three  promising  students  were  thus 
enabled  to  take  the  course  in  the  summer  of  1910. 

1910 

The  class  of  1910  organized  at  a  class  party  given  at  Chicago  Commons 
The  following  officers  were  elected: 

Funds  for  two  scholarships  for  the  Summer  session  of  1911  were  sub¬ 
scribed  by  the  class. 

President — Arthur  H.  Richardson,  Columbia  University,  New  York  City. 

Secretary-Treasurer — Miss  Margia  C.  Morgan,  6112  Jackson  Park  boule¬ 
vard,  Chicago,  Ill. 

Personals 

Miss  Mary  Morrison  of  the  class  of  1910  will  spend  the  coming  year  in 
Germany  and  France. 

Miss  Mildred  Hartman,  ’10,  was  married  July,  1910,  to  Mr.  Arthur  Mayer 
Wolfson,  of  New  York  City. 

Note:  Please  send  your  Secretary  facts  of  interest  about  yourself  or 
classmates  for  future  numbers  of  the  Bulletin. 


GENERAL  INFORMATION 

Registry 


Admission — For  regular  students  seeking  the  diploma  courses  in  ele¬ 
mentary  psychology,  economics  and  social  ethics  are  required  as  a  condi¬ 
tion  of  entrance,  or  as  additional  work  supplementing  the  curriculum  of 
the  school.  The  only  equivalent  accepted  is  ability  tested  by  experience 
and  achievement  in  some  line  of  social  work. 

Special  Students — Persons  not  having  the  academic  training  required 
of  candidates  for  the  certificate,  but  whose  practical  experience  and  general 
ability  prove  their  capacity  to  profit  by  the  training  offered,  may  be  ad¬ 
mitted  to  courses  which  they  are  most  capable  of  taking  with  the  approval 
of  the  executive  officers. 

Visitors — Auditors  may  upon  application  be  admitted  in  limited  num¬ 
bers  (according  to  the  seating  capacity)  to  hear  special  lectures  or  courses, 
but  will  receive  no  credit. 

Summer  School — In  addition  to  all  eligible  for  the  regular  courses  of 
the  year,  those  whose  engagement  in  some  line  of  charitable,  social,  and 
civic  work  fits  them  to  profit  by  the  extension  courses  will  be  admitted  to 
the  summer  session. 

Credits — Certificates  are  granted  on  completion  of  seven  required  and 
three  elective  courses  of  22  lectures  with  fifteen  hours  a  week  of  field  work. 
Arrangements  for  credit  with  certain  academic  institutions  can  be  made 
under  certain  limitations. 

The  Academic  Year — The  regular  school  session  is  divided  into  three, 
Autumn,  Winter  and  Spring  Quarters,  each  eleven  weeks  in  duration. 
Students  are  admitted  at  the  beginning  of  any  term,  but  the  certificate 
is  granted  only  at  the  end  of  the  regular  session.  The  Summer  session 
is  five  weeks  in  duration. 


Tuition — 22  lectures  course,  $15,  44  lecture  course,  $25.  Complete 
diploma  course,  $75.  The  fee  for  each  course  during  the  Summer  Session 


is  $15. 


Living — Average  cost  of  board  and  room  a  week,  $6  and  upwards. 
Temporary  residence  may  often  be  secured  in  settlements.  The  Registrar 
will  assist  in  arranging  accomodations. 


Aids 


Scholarships — Scholarships  covering  free  tuition  for  ten  college  students 
are  offered  for  1912,  and  two  for  the  Summer  School  of  1911. 

Studentships — A  limited  number  of  research  studentships,  carrying  a 
stipend  of  $350  a  year  and  tuition,  are  awarded  annually  to  graduates  ol 
colleges  in  good  standing.  Those  who  have  received  the  certificate  of  the 
school  are  also  eligible  to  these  appointments. 

Office  Hours — Office  Hours  for  conferences  daily,  except  Saturday 
afternoons,  Sundays  and  holidays,  9-12  a.  m.,  2-4  p.  m.  The  President  or 
Registrar  will  be  accessible  at  these  hours. 

Apply  now  for  registration  in  the  courses  of  next  Quarter,  or  for  further 
information  and  literature.  Address, 


THE  REGISTRAR,  Suite  235,  87  Lake  St.,  Chicago. 

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